Me: If Tailyr dies is that suicide?

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Me: One of the reviews.

Karson27: What do you think?

Me: If I had an idea why would I ask you?

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Tamaki's words kept bugging me. Dancing around in my head until I was about to kick everyone out of Tailyr's room and get answers out of here. Luckily, I didn't have to resort to that. Tailyr had finally talked Mori into going home and sleeping and sent Honey with him to make sure he did. Kyoya was passed out in his office with Marx. Tamaki and Haruhi went on a food run. Lily and the twins had gone for a walk to get out of the room, which left me with my best friend.

"You must hate … just sitting around like this," she coughed.

"I don't mind. I do have a question though," I said.

"I might have an answer."

"What can you tell me about Kyoya's family?"

She looked at me, her blue eyes curious to how I knew to ask her about the Ootori family. Then she smirked. "Tamaki talked to you didn't he? That idiot," she sighed. "You know, at first, I was really pissed that he didn't introduce you to them but … then I met them."

"How?"

"Ouran Festival," she coughed. "It was right before I started getting sick. We had the festival and all that bullcrap and I …"

I waited for her to finish. She didn't seem to know how. She chewed her bottom lip lightly.

"I don't know what sparked it," she said slowly. "Everything was going fine but suddenly … this man came up and smacked the living hell out of Kyoya – knocked his glasses off an everything. I went freaking ballistic. He called Kyoya ignorant, which is like the most idiotic statement I've ever heard. I wish I was half as smart as him. The man was his father … Yoshio Ootori." She spit the name out like a bite of lemon. "Of course, I jumped all over him about smacking his almost full grown son for no good reason in front of everyone."

"I suspect that went over great," I commented.

"Oh yeah. Just as well as taking Bill's Diet Mountain Dew and dumping it down the drain," she said. I could tell that things were going to get worse in this story. Tailyr's temper was always getting her into trouble. Even when I was around. "Anyway. I gave him my name and told him to shove it. I went about my merry life for about ten seconds before I was abducted basically."

"You what?"

She chuckled and coughed hard. More blood. "Kyoya has two older brothers. You know that. I met the eldest, Akira. He's pretty strong for a paper pusher. Anyway, his father threatened me and the usual blah, blah, blah. He knew my whole record and threatened to tell Takeshi's parents. Then the headmaster stepped in. Happy ending with a bad middle."

I didn't say anything for a moment.

"I'm glad he never took you to meet him," she told me. "Because if he had and that bastard would've said anything about you. If he threatened you. And I found out and I caught him," she coughed but I made out, "I'd fuck him up."

I sighed. Now I was really confused. Of course something like this would happen to me. I got into a huge fight with someone who was just looking out for me. I drug him through emotional barbwire and in the end, he was right. Fmylife.

"Karsyn, you two need to talk. I don't care if you scream and deck him in the face. Whatever you have to do to sort things out," she hacked. "You just need to talk … at least …"

Her eyelids were sagging. I guess the effort of talking wore her out. I smiled and stood. "Get some sleep idiot. You need the rest."

"You better … be going to talk … to that … other idiot …" she mumbled her eyes closing. "And I don't … mean Tamaki …" She yawned. "And I have one more favor to ask …"

"Sure," I said.

"Keep Takeshi out of this room until he has slept a lot. He hasn't been sleeping enough."

I could feel my evil grin spreading across my face. "I can do that."

"Thanks," and then she was out.

I left, shutting the door quietly behind me. I went to Kyoya's office. Kyoya was on the couch, half hanging off, his glasses discarded on the floor. Marx was curled up on top of the desk, for whatever reason. There was plenty of floor space but instead of claiming that, he decided to shove everything off of the desk and sleep up there. What a freak.

"Marx wake up!" I said trying to shove him off. "Marx!" Not even a budge. The boy could sleep, that was for sure. "Oh! Forget it I have a better plan." I said storming out of the office. A few minutes I returned with a special Marx lure. "Marx look what I've got," I taunted, waving a box of chicken strips under his nose and then snatching it away quickly when his eyes popped open. "Here you go," I said tossing him a single chicken strip. I need the rest as treats.

"What do you want?" he asked, chewing on the strip of chicken.

"I need your help," I told him, putting a hand on my hip, the other held the sacred box just out of Marx's reach.

"With?"

"Keeping Mori out of Tailyr's room."

He gave a short scoff that I thought was meant to be a condescending laugh. "No. I'd rather be hit by a bus thank you very much," he said.

"Then you don't get the rest of these." I said eating one of his chicken strips. While his eyes narrowed he didn't seem to be taking the bait.

"So? Have you ever tried to get someone that big and scary from getting what they want? Mori will eat me for lunch."

"Thought you might say that," I said. I opened the door and motioned for my back up plan to come into the room. "Marx, meet Princess. She's a hooker."

Marx's eyes doubled in size, eying the woman.

"We actually prefer the term pleasure givers," the woman said, giving Marx a seductive grin.

"Fine whatever," I said rolling my eyes. "You help me keep Mori out of Tailyr's room for the next two days you get her – my treat. Deal?"

"D – Deal," he coughed, hopping off of the desk and leaving the room quickly.

"How much do I owe you for acting like a hooker?" I asked the nurse, who's real name was Kimber Nakamara.

She thought about it for a second. "8,000 yen."

"Fair enough." I grabbed Kyoya's wallet off the desk and opened it. "Hmm he only has 10,000 yen in here," I mused. "How does 10,000 sound?"

"Agreed," she smiled.

"Here you go then." I said handing her the money. "Nice doing business with you."

-Marx-

I'd done a lot of dumb things in my life, like making a flamethrower out of an Axe can and a lighter. This though, had to be the top of the list. Takeshi Morinozuka scared me. He could kill me no problem and keeping him from Tailyr was probably going to make him go ballistic.

Remember the hooker. Remember the hooker, I mentally chanted as I walked up to the door. I knocked a woman answered.

I gulped. "Is this Takeshi Morinozuka's house?" I asked nervously.

"Yes. He's asleep but his cousin is here," she said.

"Oh. Good. I'm his girlfriend's brother. She sent me over here to keep an eye on him for a bit."

"Yes. Come in. Come in," she let me in. I took my shoes off. "I didn't know that Mitchell-san had a brother. She never really says anything about her family and she spends a lot of time with Takeshi-san. At least, until she got sick. The poor young master has hardly slept since then. Everyone is really worried."

I nodded as she showed me to Mori's room. I pushed the door open. Mori was solidly out in his bed, sprawled out, with an arm draped over his eyes. Honey was munching on cake in the corner with Usa on his lap. I creeped over to him.

"Hey Marx-chan," he whispered to me. "What are you doing here? I thought you were sleeping at the hospital?"

"I was until Tailyr decided to give me a mission and Karsyn made me do it," I grumbled, sitting down next to him.

"What is that?"

"You'll see," I said. I was kind of afraid of the little Loli next to me, too. I was just going to wait until Mori woke up. "How long as he been asleep?"

"All day."

I did some math, sort of. That was about twelve hours. No wonder Tailyr didn't want him back at the hospital. The guy was beat. He had been looking really rough for a while. Then, the soon to be postal beast stirred and woke. Why me?

"Good morning Takeshi!" Honey said brightly. "Did you sleep well?"

"Ah," he grunted sitting up. He rubbed his eyes and looked at me. I felt my heart drop to my feet.

"Look, Marx-chan came to visit us!" he said brightly.

He looked at me. He knew I was there for a reason.

"You can't go back to the hospital until Thursday, Mori," I gulped, my voice wavering through about ten octaves.

He stood and I jumped up, scrambling to block the door.

"Move," he warned me. I flinched like he'd already hit me.

"No. You can't," I said. Think of the hot stripper. Think of the hot stripper. "Tailyr said you have to rest. You can't go back earlier. You have to rest more. You'll only worry her by going. She doesn't need to worry."

Mori grabbed me by my shirt and I yelped.

"Don't hit me!" I whimpered. "Please for the love of all that is holy! I'm to handsome to die now!"

"Takeshi!" Honey said scoldingly. We both looked at him.

The little guy was glaring disapprovingly at Takeshi. Even the bunny was giving him the same look. "That's not nice. Marx didn't do anything wrong," he said. He held Usa out to stare at it while he finished speaking. "I know you're worried about Tai-chan. I am too. Marx-chan is right. She's too sick to worry about us. She needs to worry about getting better. She will be okay for a couple days."

I looked at Honey and then to Mori. He looked at me for a full minute before releasing me. I nearly fainted in relief. I was never so happy to be alive. He stepped back.

"Sorry," he grunted. Then, he flopped back on his bed. The grizzly was asleep again and I was still breathing.

"Thank you, Honey," I said gratefully.

"No problem, Marx-chan. I just want everyone to get better again."

"You and me both."

Okay. So, it was a serious and funny chapter. I don't know if it was seriously funny but Karson27 did have the brilliance to bring up Marx's sexual frustration. We'll probably do some more about that in the misadventures that come at the resolution of the chapter. Haha. Please REVIEW!